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Aftermarket valve springs and retainers

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Aftermarket valve springs and retainers

Often the only cylinder-head part legal in a stock class.


Where it stands, class by class

14 classes, grouped by the answer rather than listed one by one, because an answer that holds for a class usually holds for every class that borrows its rules.

The rules do not say 1 class

Not addressed in this class document.

Legal, within limits 1 class

IJSBA-approved valves, valve springs and retainers. Conflicts with the OEM weight/dimension rule elsewhere - verify.

Legal, within limits 1 class

Listed as allowed in one place and as requiring IJSBA approval per RNA.3.9 in another. Verify.

Legal, within limits 1 class

Aftermarket springs and retainers in the 0-1100cc category ONLY. In 1101-1500cc, springs and retainers must be OEM. · SKM.4.5

Legal, within limits 1 class

Aftermarket retainers with OEM springs; valves, seats, springs and pushrods may be modified or aftermarket. Titanium prohibited unless originally equipped.

Legal, within limits 1 class

Titanium valves, pushrods and seats prohibited unless originally equipped. · RSS.3.10, RSS.3.12

Legal 1 class

Valve springs and valve spring retainers allowed; replacement valves and seats at OEM weights and dimensions.


Aftermarket valve springs and retainers: if the rule your class applies reads differently to you, or the rulebook has changed since this was read, ask. We answer with the section we read it from, or that we have not read it. Ask a rules question.

Every IJSBA class · where the rulebooks differ · signed checks on parts the shop sells.

Engine · four stroke · legal outright in 13 of 14

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